TS4-1 Hop 5
This was a short hop from ACE RV to the Prince William Forest Campground. It marked the end of our disaster recovery. Or the start of the next disaster recovery. Or both.
I will describe the RV repairs in detail in my next post, but the bottom line is this: just over $5000 of work to repair a variety of issues and perform some too-long-deferred maintenance. It was in the shop for just 4 days, which I find pretty miraculous. It leaves us about 5 days behind on our original TS4 schedule. As we do not want to move the Ft Myers arrival date, we need to cut out 5 days from our original itinerary. Most likely to be cut: Nashville TN and Homosassa FL.
The comment about “the start of the next disaster recovery?” Well, the main problem is that, in the final stages of repairing the known problems, the good workmen at ACE discovered that the back corner of the starboard slide had some badly rotted plywood. This was almost certainly due to the propensity of the window on the side of that slide to let water in during a rainstorm. Several times we have discovered, too late, water running down the wall before we completely closed the window. This rot will have to be fixed soon, but probably not until we get to Florida. Other problems: the TV antenna was caulked to the roof (I had to climb onto the roof and manually pull it free of the muck) and the new toilet was unconnected to the water supply. This resulted in about a gallon of water spraying all over the half bath before I got the water supply shut off. More rot waiting to happen?
It seems unfair that we weren’t permitted to enjoy our $5000 worth of repairs before we had to start thinking of more.